Sony held a press event back in March that featured a semi-decapitated goat, women with painted jubblies and Greek soup. UK tabloid Mail on Sunday FREAKED and ran a big story on it. Others freaked as well! Over at game blog GameSetWatch, writer and salad eater Brandon Sheffield offered his three cents on the recent Goatgate clusterfuck:

I myself am a vegetarian - I know what meat is and where it comes from. Do you? What is the difference between a dead goat on a table, and a pot of goat stew? Hamburgers are served at many game events - nobody experiences outrage. Is it upsetting to know where your food comes from? Is that the problem?

Sony purchased this goat from a butcher shop - they did absolutely no wrong. It riles me to ridiculous levels that people would decry this, then turn around and get some fried chicken or something of that nature - no less barbaric, and in fact arguably quite a bit worse, since you're completely removed from the slaughtering process - you don't even know what you're getting.

Killing animals and eating them is horrible. So, is picking plants and cutting them up. All terrible, terrible stuff. This is EXACTLY why I sustain myself on a regular diet of Hideo Kojima's and Jack Bauer's snack of choice, CalorieMate. With flavors like "apple," "cheese" and "chocolate," the lab-made pre-processed yum-yum never stops! Brian Ashcraft

Op-Ed On Goatgate [GameSetWatch]